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Dec 22, 20121 min read
65. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The Abominable Man
The 7th and best so far. I like the way they fit different (in this case a very nondescript one) detectives around Martin Beck. A book...
Dec 8, 20121 min read
63. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - Murder At The Savoy
Another excellent book in this excellent series. It is hard to characterise what I enjoy in these books; slightly sardonic humour and...
Nov 14, 20121 min read
56. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The Man On The Balcony
This one is very Ed McBain police procedural. You get to know a lot of Beck's colleagues a lot better. Child sex murderer loose in...
Nov 10, 20121 min read
54. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - Roseanna
The first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently,...
Oct 16, 20121 min read
49. Anna Quindlen - Every Last One
P recommended this because it has a murder in it. I loathed it; a real 'woman's' book, with a central character so obsessed with her...
Oct 5, 20121 min read
47. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark
The latest. Good but not one of the best. Too many characters are absent. Banks in Tallinn investigating two (of course) closely related...
Aug 13, 20121 min read
33. B.A. Morton - Mrs Jones
This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...
Jul 16, 20121 min read
26. Peter Robinson - In A Dry Season
I had read this before and had always been a bit put off by the fact that (I think) Reginald Hill has written a book with a similar theme...
Jun 13, 20121 min read
18. Henning Mankell - The Fifth Women
This is a very strange book; I had read it before. The difficulty I have is that the 'who done it side' is all about motive, which is...
May 12, 20121 min read
10. James Oswald - Natural Causes
Got this as a Kindle book for nothing (needed a break from no.11 below). A detective story with a very poorly characterised cop, which...
Apr 11, 20121 min read
2. Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
Billed as the next Steig Larsson. Not sure about this. Very long complex plot, set in Norway. Bit of a chiller really, and hence not my...
Apr 6, 20121 min read
1. Reginald Hill - Good Morning, Midnight
Suicide/Murder(?) screwed up family, security services involvement, a bit of state terrorism. Dalziel was deceived (?) by the prime...